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Nightmares (1980)
Directed by John D. Lamond
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Overview
A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother’s death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy has changed her name to Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Things are going fine until horrible things starts to happened with the cast of her new play.
Length 83 minutes
Actors
Jenny Neumann | Gary Sweet | Nina Landis | Max Phipps | John-Michael Howson | Edmund Pegge | Sue Jones | Adele Lewin | Briony Behets | Maureen Edwards | Bryon Williams | Peter Tulloch | Malcolm Steed | Denise Peterson | Tania Uren | John Harris | Gary Day | Joy Westmore | Lise Rodgers | Doug Bowles | Rossana Zuanetti | Gene Van Dam | Angela Menzies-Wills
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/21/2010 | Movie Screen | Film | Theater | 4.5 stars |
| (Average) 4.5 stars |
Viewing Notes
This is one of my all time favorite horror anthologies. I remember watching it at a friend’s house when I was young, either on VHS or cable.
Turns out, as per Zack Carlson’s intro at Terror Tuesday it was originally set to be a “new” Twilight Zone TV series but was “too stupid, too gory and too scary” for TV so the producers made it more so and then said “hey, we made a movie!”.
I always find that the first and last story are forgettable, though on this watch I did like the rat story quite a bit. However, I’m a hge fan of the Bishop of Battle bit with Emilio Estevez and the Lance Henrikson section where hes run down on the highway by a the devil who is driving a Chevy pickup.
It still holds up for me. There’s some more obvious dumb things in it now that I’m older, but for all intents it’s still a fun watch.
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